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clear (the land)
Stroke count: 8

Readings

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JōyōGrade 8KANJIDIC

Meanings

  1. clear (the land)
    新たな入植者達がその広大な荒野を開拓した。The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.tatoeba
    私どもは、私どもの製品の市場開拓のため、貴社に最大の努力を払っていただいていることを理解しております。We understand that you always do your best to develop a market for our products.tatoeba
  2. open
  3. break up (land)
  4. clear the landRtK
  1. colonization
  2. colonisation
  3. development
  4. settlement
  5. exploitation

Popular Usage

開拓

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Mnemonic (RtK)

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finger · fingers · stone (石) · rock (石)

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 703

Compound words

開拓かいたく
reclamation (e.g. of wasteland); cultivation; development; pioneering; opening up (e.g. of a new market)
干拓かんたく
land reclamation (from sea)
拓殖たくしょく
colonization; colonisation; development; settlement; exploitation
拓本たくほん
rubbing; rubbed copy
開拓者かいたくしゃ
pioneer; settler; colonist
魚拓ぎょたく
ink rubbing of a fish
女拓にょたく
(making a) print with a female body
拓植たくしょく
colonization
きり拓くきりひらく
to cut open
活路開拓かつろかいたく
developing a way or means
切り拓くきりひらく
to cut open
開拓するかいたくする
to develop; to cultivate

Additional Examples

荒野を開拓する。
Cultivate the wilderness.tatoeba

Stroke Order

8 strokes

Practice Writing

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